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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: robgo2 on November 17, 2010, 03:59:01 pm

Title: Custom profiles suddenly stopped working.
Post by: robgo2 on November 17, 2010, 03:59:01 pm

I have been happily printing on my Epson 3880 using custom paper profiles that Eric Chan made for me.  Today, I made several prints in which the colors are wildly off.  I have recalibrated my monitor with no improvement.

I did update to Mac OS 10.6.5 several days ago, and I wonder if that changed some settings that are critical to color printing.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Rob

Title: Re: Custom profiles suddenly stopped working.
Post by: digitaldog on November 17, 2010, 04:24:09 pm

Unlike cheese outside the fridge, ICC profiles can’t change and go bad so I doubt that’s it. Check all the inks are firing for one. Could be the upgrade, it messed around with the driver? But its not the paper profiles.

Title: Re: Custom profiles suddenly stopped working.
Post by: robgo2 on November 17, 2010, 05:04:22 pm

Quote from: digitaldog on November 17, 2010, 04:24:09 pm

Unlike cheese outside the fridge, ICC profiles can’t change and go bad so I doubt that’s it. Check all the inks are firing for one. Could be the upgrade, it messed around with the driver? But its not the paper profiles.

Andrew,

You nailed it.  I ran a nozzle check and found a clogged nozzle.  Did a head cleaning, and all is back to normal.  I should have thought of this myself.

Thanks,
Rob